I will later edit and supplement with my own anecdotes and inject my writing style. I grew up in TN and would like to speak to spending a lot of my time outdoors exploring both the Smoky Mountains and the surrounding foothills. If you could please mention how my father introduce me to the outdoors and how he further fostered that love. He also grew up here, so talk about something how I inherited this love from him. It should eventually build to how spending so much time outdoors has enhanced my ability to contribute to a learning environment, but has also primed me to receive full benefit of a learning environment. This is as a result of the fact that I have enhanced my awareness of the outside world, through deepening my understanding of myself. and then add in a bunch of fluffy (but kinda cogent) stuff to hit around 500 words. The absolute minimum of words is 450 and max is 650.